Data recovery program retrieve accidentally deleted files from Windows hard drive partition or from any data storage media consisting of corrupted files and folders.

Rainmeter, only months after being reawakened, has reached the big 1.0 mile stone. Read to see how my test drive with it went.

Cerulean Studios has updated their popular instant messenger software Trillian.

What to do when the devs say it will be released shortly, but it can already be found elsewhere?

Have you ever wanted to pick an exact hue from an image, to know what the exact color information of a certain pixel is? ColorPic 3 to the rescue! Click for more.

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Ever wanted to have your machine look like a Mac, without actually getting one? Rejoice! ObjectDock brings one element from OSX' interface to the win32 platform, the much loathed dock. Ergo, a tabbed app launcher annex taskbar, which can auto-hide and has icons that grow and shrink when you hover your mouse over it. Ooooh!

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Contemplicity brushes off the dust and resurrects itself with its third release, Seasons.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 is a fast, efficient mail and news client based on the mail/news segment of the Mozilla suite. Building on the improvements found in the 0.7 milestone (the introduction of the Themes and Extensions managers, smaller download package, noticeable performance) this update addresses flaws in the extension system alongside minor bugs. Thunderbird is a practical, free alternative to email and newsgroup clients such as Microsoft Outlook.

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Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 is a swift, feature-rich web browser with excellent compliance for standards. Sporting popup blocking, tabbed browsing, an integrated Download manager, integrated Google search, support for themes and a host of other features, Firefox will revolutionise your browsing experience. This release introduces a new navigation menu icon set, puts right flaws in the Extension manager, and addresses a number of minor bugs.

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Alienware has issued a statement towards yesterday?s announcement of Nvidia's SLI. If in fact Nvidia's SLI is faster than Alienware's VideoArray, the company is willing to swallow its pride to offer SLI. Still you have to wonder how much money Alienware has put into its VideoArray technology.

?Should Nvidia?s SLI technology ultimately prove faster than Alienware?s Video Array, we will offer it to our customers as soon as it becomes commercially available,? stated Frank Azor, senior vice-president and general manager of Alienware?s Worldwide Product Group. ?Either way, we will continue to develop and optimize Video Array for all non-Nvidia graphics solutions, such as those from ATI, 3D Labs, Matrox, and any other manufacturers. Our sole interest is in offering technology that provides the very best computing experience possible to Alienware customers.?



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Bill Gates has issued a report on the current status of stopping SPAM made by Microsoft. Already steady progress has been made from the deployment of SmartScreen (Microsoft spam-filtering technology). That's present in MSN 8, MSN Premium, MSN Hotmail, and Outlook 2003. Still this isn't enough as Bill Gates reviews alternatives to fighting SPAM.

I'd like to update you on the progress that Microsoft and our industry are making to curb the epidemic of junk email. Since I sent a message to customers on this subject a year ago, we've made significant advances against spam. It's still a major problem ? an invasion of privacy, a costly drain on time and resources and, as a carrier of worms and viruses, a significant threat to computer security. The good news is that billions of junk emails are being blocked every day, and spamming has become a more difficult and less rewarding business.

Much of the improvement Microsoft customers have experienced so far has resulted from broad deployment of SmartScreen, our advanced spam-filtering technology. SmartScreen has provided a significant benefit to users of MSN 8 and MSN Premium, MSN Hotmail and Outlook 2003. Since Hotmail deployed it six months ago, SmartScreen has been blocking more than 95 percent of all incoming spam ? an average of nearly 3 billion messages every day. Because we believe that SmartScreen is crucial to the war against spam, we recently began making it available free to all users of Exchange Server 2003, via a download of the Exchange Intelligent Message Filter from [ link ] www.microsoft.com/exchange .



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Expanding its lineup of nontraditional mice, Microsoft is unveiling two designer mice created by prolific design artist Philippe Starck. Starck has designed two streamlined, corded mice for Microsoft, one with an orange strip and one with a blue strip through the middle of a metallic body, according to photos of the mice on the Web site of an Italian Microsoft distributor. On the strip is a wheel for scrolling and the traditional two mouse buttons appear to have been hidden in the design.

The mice use optical technology and can be connected to either a Windows PC or a Macintosh using a USB cable, according to descriptions of the product on the Web sites of various retailers. Amazon.com already has the mice, called the Microsoft Optical Mouse by Starck, available for pre-order for $29.95. Microsoft has sent out teasers to the media advertising its partnership with Starck and that the "collaboration designed to inspire" will deliver "something truly unexpected." The announcement is set for July 8. A company spokeswoman declined to comment before then.

Starck's experience with electronics includes watches for Fossil and a baby monitor and scales for U.S. retailer Target. However, the French designer caters to many markets. His other designs include furniture, food packaging, luggage, vehicles, clothing, and hotel interiors.



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